Adjustable mirror-support.



No. 786,609. 7 PATENTED AUG. 18, 1908.

C. N. LANGDON.

ADJUSTABLE MIRROR SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. a. 1902.

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s i 8 a S Q NiTnp STATES Patented August 1a, 1903.

CHARLES N. LANGDON, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

ADJUSTABLE MIRROR-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 736,609, dated August 18, 1903.

Application filed September 8, 1902. Serial No. 122,615. (No model.)

To (tZZ 2072,0722, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES N. LANGDON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Peoria, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Mirror-Supports; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has reference to an adjustable mirror and its support, and the object which I have in view is to provide a mirrorsupport of a collapsible frame arranged to be extended to a greater or less extent and one end of the support having means whereby the same may be swingably attached to any suitable device.

A further object of the invention is a device suspended from the outer end of the collapsible frame from which is supported a mirror. This mirror-support has a detachable connection with the collapsible frame and is of two parts having swivel connection with each other.

The invention has for its further object to provide a simple, durable, and cheap mirrorsupport; and it consists in the details of construction andarrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device in which the collapsible frame is shownpartly extended. Fig. 2 is a front elevation showing the manner of supporting the mirror from the collapsible frame. Fig. 3 is a detail in section of connecting devices for the outer end of the collapsible frame, which also serves the means from which the mirror-frame is suspended.

In the figures the main frame-support, from which it is designedto suspend the mirror, comprises a skeleton frame of a multiplicity of parts 1 and 2, which have their opposite ends pivotally connected with each'other at 3 and a central pivotal point 4 in such a mannor that as the points 1 and 2 are separated from each other, as shown in Fig. 1, they will lie in angles diagonally opposite to each other, and the distance towhich the entire frame may be extended is governed by the pivotal points 8 and i. At opposite ends of this frame, composed of parts 1 and 2, is provided the short links 5 and 6 and 7 and 8, each of which has a pivotal connection at 9 with parts 1 and 2 at the forward end of the frame and at 10 with parts 1 and 2 at the rear thereof, as shown, and the links have a pivotal connection with each other at 11 and 12. It is designed to provide between all of the parts at points where they have a pivotal connection the disks or plates 13. With the parts assembled as described and shown in Fig. 1 it is readily apparent how this framesupport comprising said parts may be extended or collapsed for the purpose herein, and I have provided means for preventing any sagging of this frame when it is extended and in addition providing for the support of the inner end of the frame, whereby it may have a swingable connection with a wall, dresser, or other desirable and convenient support. This consists in the provision of a frame extension or bar 14, provided with an elongated slot 15, by means of which the said bar may be slidably connected with the pivotal point 12 of the parts 7 and 8. The outer end of said bar let has a pivotal connection at 16 with oppositely-disposed links 17, whose free ends have a pivotal connection at 18 with the parts? and 8 intermediate their pivotal points lOand 12, as herein shown. The outer end of the bar let is provided with a pin 19, bearingat right angles thereto, which is shown rotatably mounted on frame part 20, adapting the parts 1 and 2 in their connection with each other to have a swingable relation with the frame part 20 by means of the pin 19.

Referring to the pivotal point 11 of the parts 5 and 6, the same comprising the stud portion 21, having the enlargement 22 and the socket portion 23. The stud portion 21 is passed through the parts 5 and 6, and a disk 13, separating the same and the end of the stud 21, is secured in a suitable manner in the socket 23.

It is designed in connection with the frame parts herein illustrated and described to suspend a mirror that shall have a detachable connection with the said frame and have a swivel connection with its support that it may be swung thereon and also that the mirror-frame may have frictional engagement with parts of its swivel-support for easy adjustment thereon.

I 24 indicates a spring frame or wire support formed from a single piece of wire bent into suitable form, with the vertical portions and the substantially circular or ball-shaped portion 26, the horizontal and oppositely-extended portions 27, having coiled spring portions 28 and the depending portions 29, with the-right-angled short stud portions 30,adapted for frictional engagement with sockets 31 in a mirror-frame 32, designed to be supportby means of the swivel connection herein shown or the frame for suspending said mirror detached from the main frame when desired, which, as will be seen, makes it very convenient when shipping the device, and such a collapsible frame as herein provided, with the mannerof supporting the same and anchoring it to prevent sagging, may be used for other and various purposes than that for which it is intended herein, and I do not wish to be confined to the arrangement and con struction of the device as shown, as details may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of invention herein.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A hanger or support, composed of a multiplicity of parts having a pivotal relation with each other and forming a collapsible frame having the pivot 12, aswinging support for such frame comprising a slotted bar with which the pivot 12 has a sliding relation and anchoring-arms between one end of the bar and parts of the collapsible frame, substantially as described.

2. A hanger or support, composed of a multiplicity of parts having a pivotal relation with each other and forming a collapsible frame having the pivot 12, a swinging sup port for such frame comprising a slotted bar with which the pivot 12 is longitudinally slidable, the anchoring-arms 17 between a point 16 with the bar and 18 of the collapsible frame, and means of the outer free end of the bar having connection with a suitable support, substantially as described.

3. A hanger or support, composed of a multiplicity of parts having a pivotal relation with each other and forming a collapsible frame having the pivot 12, a swinging support for such frame comprising a slotted bar with which the pivot 12 has a sliding relation, anchoring-arms 17 between one end of the bar and parts of the collapsible frame adapted to hold the frame centered when extended, and a mirror-support having a swivel connection with the outer end of the collapsible frame, all substantially as described.

4. In a device of the class described, the combination of the parts 7 and 8 of a lazytongs frame, a bar having an elongated slot with which the inner ends of the parts 7 and 8 havea pivotal slidable relation, and aehoring-arms having a common pivotal connection with the bar within the body of the frame and their opposite ends pivotally attaehed to parts 7 and 8., substantially as described.

5. In a device of the class described, the combination with the parts 1 and 2, of a lazytongs frame, of parts 7 and 8 having theirinner ends pivoted together, a swingable bar having an elongated slot through which the pivot of the inner end of parts 7 and 8 is carried and in which it has longitudinal bearing, and the anchoring and centering arms 17 having pivotal connectionwith the parts 7 and 8 between their pivotal connections with each other and the parts 1 and 2 and having connection at 16 with the bar, all substantially as described and shown.

6. In a device of the class described, the combination with parts 1 and 2 of a lazy-tongs frame having disks 13 between their pivotal points, the bar 14 adapted for swingable connection with a suitable support and slotted as at 15, the parts 7 and 8 pivoted to each other to slide in such slot and at their opposite endspivoted at 9 to the lazy-tongs, the arms l7having connection with the slotted bar and the arms 7 and 8 combined with the bar as an anchoring device, and. a swivel support from the opposite end of the frame to which has swivel connection a mirror, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES N. LANGDON. Witnesses:

CHAS. W. LA PORTE,

CHAS. F. BAILEY. 

